paint and trim

today has been spent doing a small bit of christmas trimming...trying to finish up cards and beginning to stash surprises under the tree. giving gifts and wrapping them up special is something i love to do. but having a little teething baby has made making homemade gifts almost impossible this christmas...so i've been doing lots of shopping online. but adding a little special homemade touch is important to me...so this year i decided to use fabric and painted canvas paper to wrap things up with.

i tried my hand at recreating the pom pom anthropologie paper i've been pining over (i used white crate paper (to give it a handmade paper feel) and 7mm red pom poms...wrapped the gift up in the crate paper and hot glued the pom poms on).

to make hand-painted paper, i use primed canvas pads and acrylic paint. max and i had a ball painting away last night...and because the sheets are primed they mold really nicely around the gift when it's time to wrap! they're like little pieces of fine art to make the best kind of first impression.

wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

tonight is a date night/hobbit night (eep!) and tomorrow is mad dash finish shopping saturday...

xoxo

wherein i expose my love for rubber cement

my fingers have been all an'itch to craft and scissor and rubber cement everything! there is something about the cool evenings we've been having here. they have my mind racing...and i've never felt more like the me i knew and lost a little bit. i'm starting to remember why i took the time to do and appreciate the little things that i did and appreciated. like varieties of glue. and that's a good start!

i love wrapping and mailing out packages...and it's a little sad that i get more joy out of wrapping a gift more than picking out the gift itself most times. or maybe it's sadder that i took a picture of my rubber cement bottle. i think it's photogenic, no? regardless, i'm getting a hankering for a little swapping. is there anyone who would be interested in doing a fall swap?

and for all you mama's with wee ones, ikea came out with some really sweet and cheap plush play food sets. perfect for my girl niki and her daughter avery's 3rd birthday package.

let's just hope everything doesn't come out smelling like rubber cement.